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Monday, November 7, 2016

Join Me After NaNo

It’s that time of year again, and I’m once again participating
in National Novel Writing Month – aka NaNoWriMo. I skipped the last few years,
but twice in the past I’ve used nano to complete two manuscripts.

The idea behind the event is to encourage would-be writers to cheer
on one another as participants attempt to complete an entire 50,000 word
manuscript during the month of November. My first experience with the one month
challenge was when I wrote the fourth novel in my mystery series. I kept a
video blog of that experience, and it
can still be found online here. Few people have actually bothered to watch
it since I posted it in 2010, and I don’t expect many if any of you to go back
and watch it now.

My second time with nano was the following year when I rewrote
the second novel in my mystery series, having lost the original first draft in
a catastrophic PC hard drive failure.

This time I’ll be using the opportunity to complete my entry in
a new series several authors and I have been working to create. We developed a
character and backstory together, and are working on a prequel novel which will
act as a sort of pilot episode for the series. From there, each author has carteblanche to use the character in a novel of his or her own creation.

My novel will be tentatively titled On the Side of the Angel, and I’ve already created a cover concept.
Each of the novels in the series will feature the badge seen on my cover
indicating that it’s part of the Bartering Angel series.

Once November is over, I will hopefully have a completed first
draft, and I will then need other eyes to help me sort out any issues with
grammar, punctuation, spelling, and even craft issues such as story arc and
character development. Readers who take on these responsibilities are known as
beta readers, and I’m here to ask you to join that part of my team.

If you have any interest in being in on the ground floor of
cleaning up a rough manuscript and bringing it to a fuller more realized state,
just drop me a line. I’ll send you a copy and even include you in the
acknowledgements of the completed book when it’s published.

As a teaser, here’s the story description I tossed together for
the book’s nano page:

A woman with a "particular set of skills" has been
forced to find a new life having faked her death and gone off grid. Finding
herself in Pittsburgh with no friends, no job, and only the skeleton of a
fictional identity, she must deal with some unsavory people if she hopes to
bring the man who destroyed her family to some semblance of justice.

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About Me

With a profound interest in religion, liberal politics and humor, Dave began writing in high school and has not given up on it since. His first professional writing jobs came while attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh when he was hired to create political cartoons for the Pitt News and to write humor pieces for Smile Magazine. Dave has worked in the newspaper industry as a photographer, in the online publishing industry as a weekly contributor to Streetmail.com, and was a contributing writer to the Buzz On series of informational books, and his story, The Bet in Red Dust, appeared in the Western online anthology, Elbow Creek. Dave’s science fiction novel, Synthetic Blood and Mixed Emotions, is available from its publisher, writewordsinc.com.
Dave currently resides in his childhood home in Toronto, OH with his beautiful girlfriend and his teenage daughter. He enjoys participating in local community events and visiting with his two adult children and his grandkids. Join the Facebook fan-page at https://www.facebook.com/Lupaschwartzmysteries.